Writing

Whether your aim is to be a creative writer or a corporate writer, UQ’s undergraduate and postgraduate writing programs will help you to produce compelling, career-enhancing writing in a variety of genres. The programs put Writing at the centre of learning. And its staff of visiting and full-time educators, industry professionals, and writers enjoy international reputations.

Undergraduate studies in Writing

There's a knack to producing writing worth reading, and that's what this area will help students achieve. Students will develop a fundamental and substantial understanding of how language works—at the word, sentence, paragraph, and document level. They will learn strategies for designing, structuring, writing, and revising—on paper and online. Whether the aim is to be a creative or a corporate writer, these studies will train students to produce compelling, career-enhancing writing in a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres. Staff in the School's creative writing program are professional teachers and authors, with an impressive record of publications and awards, such as Venero Armanno's novel The Volcano, which won the prestigious 2002 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Fiction.

Whether it is fiction, poetry, or screenwriting, undergraduate students can study the techniques of poetic expression in order to produce both critical and creative writings and to extend knowledge of literature and writing practice. Click here for details.

Undergraduate courses in the Writing major.

Postgraduate studies in Writing

At postgraduate level students may study Writing, Editing and Publishing at Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters level.   The School also offers Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Creative Writing.